You know, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music. So Goodreads was built to do this, our position is not catalog your books, our position is see what your friends are reading, or get excited about reading through your friends. So, everywhere on the site you go we don't show you like book reviews about Harry Potter, we show you here's what your friends thought of Harry Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

Gideon Shalwick is an online video marketing entrepreneur and teacher. 8220;When I wrote that book I was not a millionaire, so some people thought the title was a little bit misleading, because they thought, if you want to teach people how to make millions you’ve got to be a millionaire yourself.” Gideon and I talked about several approaches to marketing online, but when I asked him about his most successful method, he said, “join up with someone else who already has a list that they built In a world where everyone assumes that content must be free online, how is Gideon Shalwick getting customers to whip out their credit cards to buy his online classes?!

Ozumo Sushi :  Final story – a few weeks ago I was traveling to San Francisco and had pre-booked every imaginable hour of every day for the full 5 days I was there.  But Tags: Tech Market Analysi If you use Twitter and think it is a valuable service then you’re probably tired of the steady stream of your friends who tell you it’s just a fad and they don’t feel compelled to join.  They They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.”

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.) then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web.  As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising” company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. 

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing.  When When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable.  One One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic” search results in the search engine.  My

Irvine-based Autobytel and Kelley Blue Book said today that the firm have linked up Autobytel's used car program with Kelley's online used car marketplace. According to the firms, dealers participating in Autobytel's used car program can choose to also list their automobiles at Kelley Blue BOok's online used car marketplace, which sees around 12 million users a month. The listings on Kelley Blue Book are part of Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. Cliff, remind me about your background? My first career was spent building radio and television stations, then running the programming side of those businesses. In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations

In the interview we talked about business concepts like “must marketing,” which takes viral marketing and adds urgency to it, but Lisa also asked some personal questions about my fiance, childhood and clothing. Many of the books at the library were about young entrepreneurs who built mega-successful companies from their homes or college dorm rooms. Mixergy fan, Lisa Bruckner saw me interview other entrepreneurs here and asked, “Where’s YOUR interview Andrew?” She wanted to know how I bootstrapped that $30+ MM/year business and a few other things about me.

Pasadena-based LeisureLink, which markets vacation lodging through online travel sites, said Wednesday that the firm has rolled out its own specialty lodging booking software for travel companies. The firm said that the software, which helps consumers find and book rentals, is now available for private labeling by its clients. LeisureLink provides distribution and marketing The software was originally developed for Abetterstay.com, LeisureLink's online site for finding vacation rentals. READ MOR

In his book Influence , Robert Cialdini said that authority is one of the most powerful persuasion tools because it’s so subtle. Within minutes of posting on twitter that Mixergy.com kept crashing, about a dozen people suggested that I drop my current Web hosting company and switch to (MT) Media Temple . Wouldn’t you love to have people champion your brand like that?